Don't Fall In Love With Your Monkey

by Ari Handel

A man is instructed not to fall in love with his monkey, but fails. 

Murat Gunel

Dr. Murat Gunel is the Chief and Neurovascular Surgery Program Co-director, at the Yale Program on Neurogenetics at the Yale School of Medicine.

The Art of Medicine

by Murat Gunel

A surgeon treats a patient with almost no chance of recovery.

Colin Quinn

Colin Quinn is a standup comic and actor. He was the Weekend Update anchor on Saturday Night Live from 1998 to 2000, and later hosted Comedy Central's Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn.

Toast

by Colin Quinn

When asked to perform at Robert DeNiro’s birthday party, Colin finds himself in over his head.

Bliss Broyard

Bliss Broyard is the author of the memoir One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life – a Story of Race and Family Secrets. She is currently blogging about a trip around the world with her husband and two kids at www.4intransit.com.

Ashes in the Closet

by Bliss Broyard

A woman struggles with why the family's secret needed to be a secret at all.

Nathaniel Eaton

Nathaniel Eaton is a journalist, storyteller, and teacher living in San Francisco. He's a contributing columnist for SF Weekly, a teacher at 826 Valencia with Dave Eggers, and is finishing his first non-fiction novel Packing For The Apocalypse.

Surviving My Survivor Audition

by Nathaniel Eaton

A hopeful star attracts more publicity than acting work.

Sandi Carroll

Sandi Carroll is an actor, teacher and the Artistic Director of Brooklyn-based theater company, the Mud/Bone Collective. She's also a co-founder of the comedy group Logic Limited, Ltd. where many of her old spy tricks have come in handy. She made her Broadway debut last year and can be seen in the upcoming films Rabbit Hole and The Adjustment Bureau.

I Was A Spy In Chinatown

by Sandi Carroll

In Chinatown, even the criminals aren’t what they seem.

Gut Instinct

by James Braly

While on vacation in Italy with his long-time girlfriend, a young man is tempted by a beautiful French woman.

How I Earned My Bitter Badge

by Brian Finkelstein

A four year platonic love affair turns out to be so much less.

Jewish Blood, Irish Heart

by Brian Finkelstein

An American man goes in search of Thanksgiving in Ireland.

Danyel Smith

Danyel Smith was editor-in-chief of VIBE from 1997 to 1999. Her latest project, HRDCVR, is a magazine in hard-cover form, or as she puts it, "a book shaped magazine."

Foxy

by Danyel Smith

A magazine editor is confronted by rapper Foxy Brown.

Jenifer Hixson

Jenifer Hixson is a senior director at The Moth.

Where There's Smoke

by Jenifer Hixson

A chance meeting unites two women with bad boyfriends and bad habits.

Katherine Russell Rich

Katherine Russell Rich (d. 2012) is the author of The Red Devil: To Hell with Cancer, and Back and Dreaming in Hindi: Coming Awake in Another Language.

What Goes Up

by Katherine Russell Rich

A writer's uptown friends won't believe her dating adventure with a New York City fire fighter.